Not me. I’m right leaning, but use ACA in pre-Medicare retirement.

I suspect a lot of FIRE people ( being excellent money managers / penny pinchers ) are in this boat.

Ok, sure… but my guess is that ACA costs aren’t your only political decision maker if you are financially independent. Other things, like market performance under one party over the other probably hold a greater weight on your political considerations. A person in that circumstance generally doesn’t vote with their wallet, they are voting with their portfolio.

But if you are younger, perhaps with a chronic condition, in a job that doesn’t provide a health insurance benefit, and with minimal 401k…you are weighting ACA costs…and are in a demographic that historically votes more blue.

If you want to bring up market performance, then we gotta talk about tariffs, and AI, and I was just with the family at Thanksgiving, alright?

Why? I didn’t vote for Trump, but 4 out of the 5 years he was in office my investments grew pretty substantially in a way that they didn’t under Obama and Biden, I can’t really count 2020 since there was somewhat of an external factor that year. Even still I didn’t lose, just didn’t grow as much.

If AI and tariffs don’t result in substantial market losses for me (and they haven’t yet) why should I care?

I don’t get it. Is there some other wedge issue keeping you conservative?

Us FIRE types depend on stable, consistent markets and positive (real) interest rates, and conservatives haven’t delivered on that in recent memory.

Might be some confirmation bias at work in one or both of us. I tend to see conservative people in the FIRE space, seems you see the opposite. I’ll look more closely to get a better feel.